Use of clinical triage criteria decreases monitored care bed utilization in gallstone pancreatitis

American Surgeon

Volumn 76, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1147-1149

  Yaghoubian, Arezou ^a   Aboulian, Armen ^a   Chan, Tony ^a   Ishaque, Brandon ^a   Wallin, Dina ^a   Putnam, Brant ^a   Stabile, Bruce E ^a   De Virgilio, Christian ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOLANGITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; GALLSTONE PANCREATITIS; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANCREATITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; BED OCCUPANCY; CALIFORNIA; CHOLANGITIS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PANCREATITIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIAGE;

EID: 78651362240     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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